Improvement in buckles



W. LESE R.

Buckles.

Patented July 13, I875.

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N. PEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER WAS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I \VILLIAM LESER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specificationforining part of Letters Patent No. 165,422, dated July 13, 1875; application filed July 29, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Beitknown that'I, WILLIAM LESER, of Oincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles, of which the following is a specification:

Heretofore the rear part of the frame of every buckle was used as a loop, to which the cloth or other material was attached by means of stitching, buttoning, or other extraneous means.

The object of my invention is a buckle containing within itself the means of attaching it to the material to be connected, thus dispensing'with stitching and other extraneous means of attaching the buckle to the material.

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of my invention, and Fig. 2 a view of the cam-lever detached.

In Fig. 1, G shows the cam-lever journaled in depending ears. The frame of the buckle is represented by F, made of one continuous piece of metal. In the open space in front of the buckle are the tongues X X. The elliptical opening in the rear shows the cam-lever before described. a

Particularly is my invention useful on such articles of clothing as require washing, like gentlemens linen pants, vests, 85c.

Having now described my invention, what 

